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Maria Băsescu

former First Lady of Romania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ18684617 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maria Băsescu (née Andrușca) (born September 6, 1951) is the wife of the 4th President of Romania Traian Băsescu. She was the First Lady of Romania from 2004 to 2014.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Maria Băsescu” is former First Lady of Romania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Maria, Băsescu and former, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 2004, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-09-06. For this dossier, Maria, Băsescu and former is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “former First Lady of Romania” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18684617. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1951, 2004 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maria Băsescu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.